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November 1: Samhain and Beltane in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively; Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956)
Soldiers of the First Australian Imperial Force
- 1214 – Byzantine–Seljuq wars: Seljuq Turks captured the important port city of Sinope.
- 1503 – Giuliano della Rovere was elected pope, taking the name Julius II in emulation of Julius Caesar.
- 1914 – World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force (soldiers pictured) departed Albany, Western Australia.
- 1959 – Dominique Mbonyumutwa, one of the few Hutu sub-chiefs in colonial Rwanda, was attacked by Tutsi activists, precipitating the Rwandan Revolution.
- Józef Zajączek (b. 1752)
- Caroline Still Anderson (b. 1848)
- Anthony van Hoboken (d. 1983)
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An emu killed by Australian soldiers
- 1917 – The British government issued the Balfour Declaration in support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.
- 1932 – The Australian military began a "war against emus" (man with dead emu pictured), flightless native birds blamed for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia.
- 1960 – In the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, publisher Penguin Books was acquitted of obscenity for the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence.
- 2016 – The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 World Series, ending the longest championship drought in Major League Baseball history.
- Matilda of Flanders (d. 1083)
- James K. Polk (b. 1795)
- Hélène de Pourtalès (d. 1945)
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November 3: Mawlid (Shia Islam, 2020); Culture Day in Japan; Election Day in the United States (2020)
Postage stamp depicting Laika
- 1848 – A new constitution drafted by Johan Rudolph Thorbecke was proclaimed, limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy.
- 1881 – Indigenous Mapuche began an uprising against the occupation of Araucanía by Chile.
- 1943 – The Holocaust: The largest massacre of Jews by German forces began at Majdanek concentration camp.
- 1957 – The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, carrying the space dog Laika (depicted) as the first living creature to enter orbit around Earth.
- 1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, a leader of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Turkey, sparking a scandal that exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime.
- Achilles Gasser (b. 1505)
- Carrie Steele Logan (d. 1900)
- Ronald Barnes (d. 1997)
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November 4: National Unity and Armed Forces Day in Italy (1918)
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Yitzhak Rabin
- 1847 – Scottish physician James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic qualities of chloroform on humans.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest led a cavalry division in an attack on a Union Army supply base at Johnsonville, Tennessee, resulting in the capture of 150 prisoners.
- 1938 – The deportation of several thousand Jews from Slovakia by the Hlinka Guard and police began.
- 1970 – Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child known as Genie, who had spent almost her entire life in social isolation.
- 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured) was assassinated by ultranationalist Yigal Amir while at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
- Antoine Le Maistre (d. 1658)
- Felix Mendelssohn (d. 1847)
- Elsie MacGill (d. 1980)
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November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain and certain Commonwealth countries (1605)
Sidney Reilly
- 1556 – At the Second Battle of Panipat, forces of the Mughal emperor Akbar captured Hemu, the Hindu emperor of north India.
- 1757 – Seven Years' War: Prussian forces led by Frederick the Great defeated the allied French and Habsburg armies at the Battle of Rossbach.
- 1925 – Sidney Reilly (pictured), known as the "Ace of Spies" and an inspiration for James Bond, was executed by the Soviet secret police.
- 1950 – Korean War: The 27th British Commonwealth Brigade succeeded in preventing a Chinese breakthrough at the Battle of Pakchon.
- 1995 – André Dallaire was thwarted in his attempt to assassinate Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa when Chrétien's wife locked the door.
- Edwin Flack (b. 1873)
- Vivien Leigh (b. 1913)
- Mary W. Bacheler (d. 1939)
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November 6: Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland and Sweden (1632); Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland
George Eliot
- 447 – A powerful earthquake destroyed large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.
- 1789 – Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
- 1856 – The first story from the collection Scenes of Clerical Life by English author George Eliot (pictured) was submitted for publication.
- 1963 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by General Dương Văn Minh's junta, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm.
- 1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam in Stephens County, Georgia, collapsed; the resulting flood killed 39 people and caused US$2.8 million in damages.
- John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (d. 1461)
- Ida Lou Anderson (b. 1900)
- Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya (b. 1962)
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Hillary Clinton
- 680 – The Third Council of Constantinople convened to settle the theological controversies of monoenergism and monothelitism.
- 1811 – Tecumseh's War: American forces led by William Henry Harrison defeated the forces of Shawnee leader Tecumseh's growing confederation at the Battle of Tippecanoe near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana.
- 1917 – World War I: British forces captured Gaza when the Ottoman garrison retreated.
- 1987 – Tunisian prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office.
- 2000 – Hillary Clinton (pictured) was elected a US senator, the first time a first lady had been elected to public office.
- William Stukeley (b. 1687)
- Ruby Hurley (b. 1909)
- Ri Ul-sol (d. 2015)
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Engraving of the Stockholm Bloodbath
- 1520 – Following a successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under Christian II, scores of Swedish leaders in Stockholm were imprisoned and later executed (depicted) despite Christian's promise of general amnesty.
- 1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, was enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
- 1940 – The Italian invasion of Greece failed as outnumbered Greek units repulsed the Italians at the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
- 1987 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing 12 people and injuring 63 others.
- 2020 – Azerbaijani forces defeated the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the Battle of Shusha during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, reclaiming the town after 28 years.
- Robert Catesby (d. 1605)
- Thomas Bewick (d. 1828)
- Tom Anderson (b. 1970)
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November 9: Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (2020)
People walking through Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin
- 1729 – Great Britain, France, and Spain signed the Treaty of Seville to end the Anglo-Spanish War, despite the underlying tensions being left unresolved.
- 1914 – World War I: Off the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Australian light cruiser Sydney sank Emden, the last active German warship in the Indian Ocean.
- 1989 – East German official Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced the immediate opening of the inner German border, resulting in the fall of the Berlin Wall that night (border crossing pictured).
- 2016 – A tram derailed in Croydon, London, killing seven people.
- Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (b. 1719)
- Martha Settle Putney (b. 1916)
- Neville Chamberlain (d. 1940)
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November 10: Noor Hossain Day in Bangladesh (1987)
Rescue efforts after the Vrancea earthquake
- 1202 – Fourth Crusade: The Siege of Zara (present-day Zadar, Croatia), the first attack on a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, began.
- 1940 – An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw struck the Vrancea region of Romania (rescue efforts pictured).
- 1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby a few weeks earlier, British forces retaliated by attacking Surabaya.
- 2007 – At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez "Why don't you shut up?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
- Guðrøðr Óláfsson (d. 1187)
- Louis Lingg (d. 1887)
- Neil Gaiman (b. 1960)
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November 11: Armistice Day; Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations; Veterans Day in the United States
The Cenotaph, London
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces and their Iroquois allies attacked a fort and the village of Cherry Valley, New York, killing 14 soldiers and 30 civilians.
- 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units all suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Dürenstein.
- 1920 – In London, the Cenotaph (pictured) was unveiled and the Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey in remembrance of the First World War.
- 1960 – A coup attempt by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against President Ngô Đình Diệm was crushed after Diệm falsely promised reform, allowing loyalists to rescue him.
- 1975 – During a constitutional crisis in Australia, Governor-General John Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's government and dissolved Parliament for a double-dissolution election.
- Antony the Younger (d. 865)
- Martha Annie Whiteley (b. 1866)
- Abraham Sarmiento Jr. (d. 1977)
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November 12: Diwali begins (2020)
Artist's impression of Rosetta with Philae
- 1928 – The British ocean liner SS Vestris sank in the western Atlantic Ocean with the loss of 111 lives.
- 1945 – Sudirman was elected the first commander-in-chief of the Indonesian Armed Forces.
- 1970 – The deadliest tropical cyclone in history made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan (Bangladesh), killing at least 250,000 people.
- 2014 – The European Space Agency lander Philae (artist's impression shown) touched down on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a comet.
- Peter Martyr Vermigli (d. 1562)
- Auguste Rodin (b. 1840)
- Naomi Wolf (b. 1962)
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November 13: Feast day of Saint John Chrysostom (Eastern Christianity)
Nevado del Ruiz
- 1642 – First English Civil War: The Royalist army engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex.
- 1914 – Zaian War: Zaian Berber tribesmen routed French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
- 1940 – Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.
- 1985 – Nevado del Ruiz (pictured) erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, and killed approximately 23,000 people.
- Theophilus H. Holmes (b. 1804)
- Arthur Nebe (b. 1894)
- Teodora Ungureanu (b. 1960)
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November 14: World Diabetes Day; Dobruja Day in Romania
Milli Vanilli with NARAS president C. Michael Greene (center)
- 1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
- 1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932, chartered by the Marshall University football team, crashed into a hill near Ceredo, West Virginia, killing all 75 people on board.
- 1990 – Music producer Frank Farian admitted that the German R&B duo Milli Vanilli (pictured) did not sing the vocals on their album Girl You Know It's True.
- 2010 – Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers' Championship after winning the final race of the season, becoming the youngest Formula One champion.
- Hugh Faringdon (d. 1539)
- Franz Müller (d. 1864)
- Ahmed Jabari (d. 2012)
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Presidential inauguration of Manuel L. Quezon
- 655 – Penda of Mercia was defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria at the Battle of the Winwaed in present-day Yorkshire, England.
- 1859 – Sponsored by Greek businessman Evangelos Zappas, the first modern revival of the Olympic Games took place in Athens.
- 1935 – The Commonwealth of the Philippines was officially established, with Manuel L. Quezon inaugurated as its president (pictured).
- 1988 – Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat proclaimed the creation of the State of Palestine as "the state of Palestinians wherever they may be".
- 2012 – Xi Jinping replaced Hu Jintao as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and succeeded as the Paramount leader of China.
- Georgia O'Keeffe (b. 1887)
- Claus von Stauffenberg (b. 1907)
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (d. 1959)
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First Qantas office, 1921
- 1476 – With the help of Stephen III and Stephen Báthory, Vlad the Impaler ousted Basarab the Old and became the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
- 1885 – After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion, the Canadian Métis leader and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel was hanged for high treason.
- 1920 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, was founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services (first office pictured).
- 1945 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded.
- 2002 – The first case of SARS, a zoonotic respiratory disease caused by a coronavirus, was recorded in Guangdong, China.
- Charles-Antoine Campion (b. 1720)
- Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)
- Clark Gable (d. 1960)
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14th Dalai Lama
- 1558 – Elizabeth I became Queen of England and of Ireland, marking the beginning of the Elizabethan era.
- 1839 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, premiered at La Scala in Milan.
- 1950 – The 14th Dalai Lama (pictured) assumed full temporal power as ruler of Tibet at the age of fifteen.
- 1997 – Sixty-two people were killed by Islamist terrorists outside Deir el-Bahari in Luxor, one of Egypt's top tourist attractions.
- 2013 – Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashed during an aborted landing at Kazan International Airport, Russia, killing all fifty people on board and leading to the revocation of the airline's operating certificate.
- Nicolas Appert (b. 1749)
- Bernardo Bellotto (d. 1780)
- Robert Hofstadter (d. 1990)
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Susan B. Anthony
- 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: In the Bay of Bengal, a French frigate squadron captured three East Indiamen mainly carrying recruits for the Indian Army.
- 1872 – American suffragette Susan B. Anthony (pictured) was arrested and fined $100 for having voted in the presidential election two weeks earlier.
- 1956 – At the Polish embassy in Moscow, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev said "We will bury you" while addressing Western envoys, prompting them to leave the room.
- 1978 – Jim Jones led more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple to mass murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after some of its members assassinated U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan.
- Itzam Kʼan Ahk II (b. 701)
- Adam Weishaupt (d. 1830)
- Wilma Mankiller (b. 1945)
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November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day; Liberation Day in Mali (1968)
Mayflower
- 1620 – The Mayflower (depicted), which brought the Pilgrims from England to the New World, sighted Cape Cod.
- 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. president Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 1942 – World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the Battle of Stalingrad with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning the tide of the battle in their favour.
- 2010 – The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mine in the West Coast in New Zealand's worst mining disaster in nearly a century.
- Eustache Le Sueur (b. 1617)
- C. X. Larrabee (b. 1843)
- Sun Li-jen (d. 1990)
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November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance; National Sovereignty Day in Argentina (1845)
Philip Mountbatten and Princess Elizabeth (1950)
- 1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: The Argentine Confederation was defeated in the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado, but the losses ultimately made the United Kingdom and France give up the blockade.
- 1947 – Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King George VI, married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten (both pictured), who was given the title Duke of Edinburgh.
- 1990 – Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, was arrested in Novocherkassk.
- 2003 – Suicide bombers blew up the British consulate and the headquarters of HSBC Bank in Istanbul, killing 59 people, including consul general Roger Short and actor Kerem Yılmazer.
- Giovanni Battista Agucchi (b. 1570)
- Carl Axel Arrhenius (d. 1824)
- Cri-Zelda Brits (b. 1983)
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November 21: Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh
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John Diefenbaker
- 1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital Tbilisi and forced King Bagrat V to convert to Islam.
- 1920 – Irish War of Independence: On Bloody Sunday in Dublin, the IRA assassinated a group of British intelligence agents, and British forces killed 14 civilians at a Gaelic football match at Croke Park.
- 1950 – Two trains collided near Valemount, Canada, killing 21 people; the subsequent trial brought future prime minister John Diefenbaker (pictured) to greater political attention.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: American forces raided the North Vietnamese Sơn Tây prison camp in an attempt to rescue 61 American POWs who were thought to be held there.
- 2015 – The Belgian government imposed a four-day security lockdown in Brussels based on information about potential terrorist attacks.
- Henry Purcell (d. 1695)
- Alexander Berkman (b. 1870)
- Stan Musial (b. 1920)
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November 22: Alphabet Day in Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia (1908)
Mike Tyson
- 1718 – The pirate Blackbeard was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of North Carolina.
- 1873 – The French steamship Ville du Havre collided with a Scottish iron clipper in the North Atlantic and sank with the loss of 226 lives.
- 1986 – Mike Tyson (pictured) defeated Trevor Berbick to win the World Boxing Council title, becoming the youngest heavyweight champion in history.
- 1995 – Toy Story, the first feature film created using only computer-generated imagery, was released in theaters in the United States.
- As-Salih Ayyub (d. 1249)
- Katherine Plunket (b. 1820)
- Asima Chatterjee (d. 2006)
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November 23: Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan
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William "Boss" Tweed
- 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while helping two Irish nationalists escape from police custody.
- 1876 – William "Boss" Tweed (pictured), a New York City politician who had been arrested for embezzlement, was handed over to US authorities after having escaped from prison and fled to Spain.
- 1963 – The first episode of Doctor Who, the world's longest-running science fiction television show, was broadcast on BBC television, starring William Hartnell as the first incarnation of the title role.
- 1980 – An earthquake struck the Irpinia region of Italy, killing at least 2,483 people, injuring more than 7,700 and leaving 250,000 homeless.
- 2007 – MS Explorer became the first cruise ship to sink in the Southern Ocean.
- Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (d. 1833)
- Anne Burns (b. 1915)
- Yusof Ishak (d. 1970)
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Ruby about to shoot Oswald
- 1542 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: England captured about 1,200 Scots with a victory at the Battle of Solway Moss.
- 1750 – Tarabai, the former regent of the Maratha Empire, had Rajaram II, whom she had previously claimed to be her grandson, arrested as an impostor.
- 1963 – During a live television broadcast, businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald (shooting pictured), who assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy, fueling numerous conspiracy theories.
- 2015 – A Turkish fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M after the latter had allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course.
- Bagrat IV of Georgia (d. 1072)
- Laurence Sterne (b. 1713)
- Beth Phoenix (b. 1980)
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November 25: Evacuation Day in New York City (1783)
de Havilland Mosquitos
- 1759 – The second of two strong earthquakes struck the Levant and destroyed all the villages in the Beqaa Valley.
- 1795 – Stanisław II Augustus, the last king of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1940 – The de Havilland Mosquito (examples pictured), one of the most successful military aircraft in the Second World War, made its first flight.
- 1960 – Three of the four Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.
- 1984 – Band Aid, a supergroup consisting of more than 30 leading British and Irish pop musicians, recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
- Andrea Doria (d. 1560)
- Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1876)
- Alexis Wright (b. 1950)
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November 26: Feast day of Saint Sylvester Gozzolini (Catholicism); Constitution Day in India (1949); Thanksgiving in the United States (2020)
Explosion on HMS Bulwark
- 1842 – The University of Notre Dame was founded by Edward Sorin, of the Congregation of Holy Cross, as an all-male institution in the U.S. state of Indiana.
- 1914 – A large internal explosion (pictured) destroyed HMS Bulwark near Sheerness, killing 741 people on board.
- 1940 – The Iron Guard killed 64 political detainees at a penitentiary near Bucharest and followed up with several high-profile assassinations, including that of former Romanian prime minister Nicolae Iorga.
- 1977 – A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted a Southern Television broadcast in South East England.
- Rudolph Koenig (b. 1832)
- Sojourner Truth (d. 1883)
- Galina Prozumenshchikova (b. 1948)
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Alfred Nobel
- 1161 – A Song dynasty fleet defeated Jin ships in a naval engagement on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
- 1815 – As specified by the Congress of Vienna, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland was signed for the newly recreated Polish state that was under Russian control.
- 1895 – Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (pictured) signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.
- 1978 – San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by supervisor Dan White.
- Rachel Brooks Gleason (b. 1820)
- Ada Lovelace (d. 1852)
- Phillip Hughes (d. 2014)
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November 28: Bukovina Day in Romania
Frank Duryea, winner of the Chicago Times-Herald race
- 1470 – Đại Việt emperor Lê Thánh Tông launched a military expedition against Champa, beginning the Cham–Vietnamese War.
- 1895 – The Chicago Times-Herald race (winner pictured), the first automobile race in the U.S., was held in Chicago.
- 1903 – SS Petriana struck a reef near Point Nepean, leading to Australia's first major oil spill and a debate over the White Australia policy.
- 1966 – Michel Micombero abolished the Burundian monarchy and declared the country a republic with himself as president.
- Manuel I Komnenos (b. 1118)
- Matsuo Bashō (d. 1694)
- Helen of Greece and Denmark (d. 1982)
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November 29: Liberation Day in Albania (1944)
Eureka Flag
- 1549 – After the death of Pope Paul III, a papal conclave was convened with an unprecedented number of cardinals, who eventually elected Julius III more than two months later.
- 1854 – An estimated crowd of more than 10,000 demonstrators swore allegiance to the Eureka Flag (pictured) as a symbol of defiance, in advance of the Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Australia.
- 1899 – FC Barcelona, one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football, was founded by Swiss football pioneer Joan Gamper.
- 1972 – Atari announced the release of Pong, one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home-console markets.
- 1987 – A time bomb planted by North Korean agents on Korean Air Flight 858 detonated over the Andaman Sea, killing all 115 people on board.
- Amos Bronson Alcott (b. 1799)
- Artur Phleps (b. 1881)
- Janet Smith (b. 1940)
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November 30: Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare; Saint Andrew's Day (Christianity); Guru Nanak Gurpurab (Sikhism, 2020)
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WTO protestors in Seattle
- 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army at the Battle of Narva.
- 1803 – An expedition led by Francisco Javier de Balmis departed A Coruña, Spain, with the aim of vaccinating millions in South America and Asia against smallpox.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese warships defeated the U.S. Navy in a nighttime naval battle off Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal.
- 1962 – Following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, Burmese diplomat U Thant was elected secretary-general of the United Nations.
- 1999 – Protests by anti-globalization activists (pictured) against the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Seattle forced the cancellation of its opening ceremonies.
- William Gilbert (d. 1603)
- Jagadish Chandra Bose (b. 1858)
- Ahmadou Ahidjo (d. 1989)
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